He said Preckwinkle should “Listen, shut up and get over here and try to do some work. That’s what you need to do. ”

But, in fact, there’s an ordinance that says County officials have to cooperate with the next President.

Alderman Preckwinkle’s transition team issued a statement in response to Stroger’s assertions. It reads: “The transition efforts got off to a slow start. As we’ve said before, we’ve had some cooperation within the different departments. But we’ve got three weeks for the rest of the transition and we, put simply, need more information and faster.”

Newsradio 780 Political Editor Craig Dellimore contributed to this report.